Lo Pan tries to wake the Dragon with his Three Storms: Rain, Lightning, and Thunder. But their bodies have been destroyed by Clare and George. What to do?
He's already possessed Joan Garrick with the spirit of Lightning. He then has Rain possess Marie, the radioactive girl, and Thunder possesses Kendrick Blair, the Derrick Devil. But what about Doc, who's missing?
Our heroes intercept an earthquake and descend into the ground along with William Harper Littlejohn, an archaeologist and geologist who luxuriates in neolatinate polysyllabic sesquepedalia. Or as Dex would say, he likes big words.
One by one, the Continentals encounter the Three Storms. Clare teleports Marie to Alcatraz, out of danger. George calls Blair by name and snaps him out of it, after several massive blows from various forms of Power have failed. Clare also presents Joan with her sword, handle up in the shape of the Cross, and Joan (well, her alternative personality, the Maid) awakens. Lo Pan screams in fury -- they're stealing all his possessed spirits!
But when Clare teleports to Lo Pan, the wizard has a captive: Doc Caliban! Yes, Doc has a silver needle in his neck holding him motionless, and Lo Pan is about to step into Doc's body and possess him!
Clare, however, teleports Doc away. Which is good, because the moment the needle is removed, Doc turns into a werewolf. Lo Pan had hoped to beat the wolf into Doc's body, which isn't so ridiculous a notion, if you ask Agent Franks.
George slips on silver knuckles and boxes Lo Pan. When Lo Pan touches the purple crystalline spine of the Dragon, his spirit energy is drained away, and he fades into nothingness, although he does manage to get a threat to George's grandchildren at least half-uttered, though short on details.
The Dragon goes back to sleep, rolling over. This crushes some of the Wing Kong Brutes, and undermines the cavern, which collapses. George goes back for Joan, reminding the Maid that Joan's body will be harmed if the roof falls. The Maid uses her sword to take herself and George back to the 14th century, then tells him to rest a while till his hour comes round again. He asks if this is goodbye, but she says, only for a time. For the crusade goes ever on and on, and crusaders meet again. When he wakes up, it's 1932.
